Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor, and her life will never be the same again. With her family and friends in danger, their only hope for salvation lies inside a strange blue box.

The Doctor takes Rose 5 billion years into the future, where a group of alien dignitaries have gathered to watch the destruction of the planet Earth. But one among them is plotting sabotage.

In Victorian England, Rose and the Doctor meet Charles Dickens and are embroiled in a funeral home's inability to keep its dead in their coffins.

An alien space craft crashes in London after the Doctor and Rose return, throwing the city into a panic. But the incident may just be a cover for a more sinister invasion.

The Doctor, Rose, and their friends must find a weakness in the Slitheen before the alien creatures convince the United Nations to release control of nuclear weapons.

When a distress signal pulls the Tardis to an underground bunker in the early twenty-first century, the Doctor finds the sole survivor of the Daleks, the genetically engineered species that exterminated the Time Lords.

The Doctor and Rose show Adam the distant future -- Satellite 5, an orbital space station responsible for broadcasting all the world's news, and which is being controlled by a powerful alien creature.

Rose convinces the Doctor to take her to the day of her father's death, but when she saves his life she creates a wound in time that manifests itself as creatures that attack the human race.

The Doctor and Rose follow another time ship to Earth, where they find themselves in London in the middle of a German air raid. While Rose gets to know a handsome fellow time traveller, the Doctor encounters a ghostly lost child.

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack flee from a supernatural creatures created by Jack's latest con attempt, and are forced to conclude that they are not capable of stopping them and saving the human race. But someone else is.

When the TARDIS stops on Earth for refueling, the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack discover that one of the Slitheen has survived and is hatching a new plot to escape Earth. Rose must resolve her relationship with Mickey.

The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack find themselves pulled into futuristic game shows against their wills, and learn that the games are lethal to the losers.

The Doctor prepares to fend off the Dalek invasion of Earth, and sends Rose back home against her will to keep her safe from the devastation that is sure to come.